The uproar concerning the unexpected death of thirteen-year-old James was palpable. The demand for transparent investigation was monumental. However, mass memory is transient, and soon James would survive only in discarded newspaper articles. But what about the fatal trait that had driven the boy to be unabashedly reckless with such a vital entity called life? Aggression, discernable in almost all the activities of the child, had been the very crucible of his death. But the fallacy had not been momentous; it had proliferated like a deadly virus, finally rendering its victim powerless before its sway.Continue reading
Narcissistic Sister-in-Law: Measures to Nip the Nuisance in the Bud
What Dickens had surmised during the conception of Miss Murdstone’s character is unforeseeable, but it’s pretty transparent that he shared his protagonist’s views in tarnishing Miss Murdstone as a “steely and cold” woman. Now, who is Miss Murdstone? Well, Miss Murdstone in Dickens’ “David Copperfield” embodies all those dominating sisters-in-law, whose sole purpose seems to disarray the placid lives of their almost perfect brother’s totally imperfect wives.Continue reading
Verbally Abusive Husbands: Living and Dealing with Them
It can be stated univocally that in many cases, successful sons or daughters carry with them the unrecognized tag of a domestic picture that is marked among other things by mutual compatibility of parents. Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, peep into the net. Our point of discussion, however, doesn’t revolve around blissful families.Continue reading
Blended Family Problems: Pursuing the Means of Resolution
It is a truth seldom universally acknowledged that some relations best survive apart. Not quite clear? Imagine yourself taking fancy towards nurturing a harmless cat and your mother incurs diphtheria. Blended families suffer pretty much the same predicament. In major cases, middle-aged couples no doubt bring with them years of accumulated maturity; but there also drags with them mostly uninvited, the progeny of past relations. And it is this undiluted heterogeneous mixture that pops up recurrent hiccups of open resentment, aggression, and palpable foreboding that become rigidly nonresponsive to diverse parenting medications.Continue reading
How to Trust Your Husband: Exploring the Means of Rebuilding Trust in Marriage
You have felt it often; a fleeting moment of stupefaction followed in some dire cases by a spate of unbridled jealousy and finally an all-consuming rage. Now, what were the successive occasions behind the eruption of such overbearing emotions?Continue reading
Communication in Marriage: A Quick Look at the Problems and Their Solutions
Familiar with the movie, “What women want?’’ Well, in case no, let’s enlighten you a bit. Mel Gibson in this romantic comedy accidentally succeeds in gaining full access to the intricate thought pattern of a woman’s mind. This, rather bizarre boon enables him to remodel his way of communicating to women, metamorphosing his otherwise sassy, nonchalant ranting to a sophisticated and emphatic one. The outcome? His so called once reputed adversary falls for him head over heels.Continue reading
Teenage Rebellion: Probing Into the Causes and Ways to Handle it
Tagore, in one of his quaint short stories, has poignantly drawn a parallel between a teenager and an unloved stray dog; the point of assimilation strikingly apparent in the helplessness in which both are doomed. Akin to the dog, a teenager in most cases becomes a misfit in his family; his pounding discomforts are a source of perennial nuisance; he is scolded unreasonably at times, his emotions undermined and his barking stamped as rebellion.Continue reading
Selfish Husbands: A Crippling Stigma to a Relation
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid; I have loved you for a thousand years
As Christina Peri’s renowned song resonates, we are blissfully drifted into surreal realms of wistful thinking, and our entire being desperately longs to savor in our thirsty souls that coveted emotion called love. Love encompasses a world of myriad passions; be it in the flushes of youth or after. Nonetheless, it determines the blooming of a secured bond that is all the more relevant after marriage.Continue reading
Talking Back: The Tormenting Tool of Kids
It was tough for habitually timid Poly to cope up with the interminable, seemingly illogical repartees of her 9-year-old son. There would initially be patient coaxing, cajoling and even promised extravaganzas; yet it would invariably end up in a cockfight between the two with the despot vociferously reigning supreme.Continue reading
Confused Mummy: I Hate My Kids
When Charlotte Yorks confides in Miranda Hobbes in the movie Sex and the City regarding her guilty conscience for feeling acutely frustrated with her twin daughters, we instantly catch a glimpse of the unfortunate mother caught amidst the confusing web of natural motherly affection and a repelling surge of discontent.Continue reading